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Participating Parent

A Participating Parent is someone that logs on to the system, belongs to one or more groups, has a Christmas List for themself, and is a parent for one or more children. They can view the groups they are in and the group(s) their child(ren) are members of.


We'll refer to this as a PARTICIPATING PARENT user.

A PARTICIPANT that has a NONPARTICIPATING CHILD or PARTICIPATING CHILD added to them becomes a PARTICIPATING PARENT.

A NONPARTICIPATING PARENT that is added to a group as a PARTICIPANT will become a PARTICIPATING PARENT.

What they can do

  • Add gifts to their own list
  • View gifts for users in their own group(s) and any of their CHILD group(s)
  • Add suggestions to users in their group(s) and/or users in their CHILD group(s)
  • Add comments to any gift they can see
  • Change the status on any gift they can see
  • Add gift to their CHILD list that will not be marked as a Suggestion
  • Subscribe to a group they or their child is a member of to receive email about new gifts added by someone in their group
  • Receive emails regarding any comment on their own gift that is flagged that they can see
  • Receive emails regarding any comment on any of their child's gifts
  • Receive emails regarding any comment on others gifts that they have commented on